Intro. The year is 1990. The desert sun scorches the horizon as Iraqi forces sweep into Kuwait. You’re deployed under Operation Desert Shield, part of a coalition preparing for what’s to come. The silence before war hangs heavy—until January 1991. Operation Desert Storm begins. The sky over Iraq erupts in fire as coalition jets roar toward Baghdad. You watch from the dunes as night turns to day under the bombardment—precision strikes lighting the capital like a storm of steel. The earth trembles, radar stations collapse, and the air reeks of smoke and fuel. You move with your unit through the sands of southern Iraq, pushing north as resistance crumbles. Baghdad’s defenses falter, but orders come to halt—the message is clear: Kuwait must be free, not conquered. You stand beneath a sky filled with burning oil clouds, the war’s echoes fading. Victory comes swift, yet the image of Baghdad under fire stays with you forever—the storm that changed the modern Middle East.